Knife guard



Dec. 29, 1931. H. c. MEYERs 1,838,492

KNIFE GUARD Filed July 7, 1950 lnognov Qm C. Mam@ m qv @CADIZ/:7U

Patented Dec. 29, 1931 Vlunirsi) f STATES PATENT' OFFICE HENRY C. benevens, or GRAND HAVEN,k MICHIGAN, AssIGNoR To THE CHALLENGE LMAGHINERY CoIvIrANY, or GRAND HAVEN, MICHIGAN, A AConroRAfrIo-N or MrCIII- GAN KNIFE` GUARD Application led July 7, 1930. Serial No. 466,016.

This invention relates to a knife guard, being particularly concerned with a very practical and simple guard for the cutting edge of knives and which, among other of its places of use, may be used for guarding and protecting from injury the cutting edges of knives used with large or power operated paper cutters in printing establishments. The guard, however, one named place of use. i Y

It is necessary in a great many instances to ship the knives, which may be of considerable length, from the factory where they are produced to the manufacture of the paper cutting machines or, in cases where knives have to be replaced from either the knife or paper cutter manufacturer to the user of the machine. The edge of the knife is very sharp and needs to be guarded when thus shipped, both for the purpose of protecting the knife edge against injury, such as dulling, nickmg or the like, and, further, to protect those who are called upon to han# die the knife either during its shipment or before or after shipment.`

The present invention is concerned with a particularly simple, yet exceptionally practical guard .in different knives, over the cutting edge of the knife serving to lengths for different lengths of cover the same so that it will' injure no one, and at the same time hold the cutting edge of the knife away from the guard whereby it will not be injured by the guard, while the guard itself protects the cutting edge from injury from outside sources.

An understanding of the invention for the attainment of the ends stated may be had from the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, in

which,

Fig. lis a plan of the blank of sheet metal from which the guard is made.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view illustrating the guard after shaping and forming from the blank, and

Fig. 3 is a vertical section through the guard showing a knife with its cutting edge is not restricted to thisl forknives which may be made Y.

and which may be instantly applied,

welding, riveting or the like.

portionv held within and protected byV the i guard. Y

Like reference characters refer to like parts in the different figures ofthe drawings. The knife guard of the invention is to tbe made from a single sheet of metal 1, of rectangular form, which at its corners has outwardly extending tongues 2 and 3, preferably, 'as shown. V

In `forming the guard the blank fof sheet metal described is bent longitudinally on one line, indicatedV in dotted lines at` 4, andiis Vformed into a loop substantially along the dotted line indicated at 5, thereby providing a guard vhaving' a` vertical side, 6` which may be termed the frontside, la shorter` vertical rear side 7 spacedtherefrorm an integral 'connecting section 8, extending downwardly toward the lower edge of the longer front side 6, the lower edges of the side 6 and` F theA section 8 being integrally connected by the loop bend 9. In order to form the loop the lowerportion of the front side 6 is bent outwardly, as indicated at 9a, for a short distance and the metal is then curved substan- F tially in the are ofacircle until it joins with the lower edge'of the section 8 described;

Itwill be evidentthat the section 8 is Vbent andformed ina curve from'its upper to its lower portion concaved on its outer side and of convex form at its inner', side. The tongues 2 and 3, which after the guard is formed into shape will extend from the ends and atfthe upper edge portions ofthe rear `and vfront sides 7 and 6 respectively, are bent inwardly at right angles to overlap each other whereupon they may be permanently secured together in any suitable manner, as by spot The guard as thus formed is to be applied overthe cutting edge portion of the knife which is indicated fragmentarily and in sec- -tion atl() in Fig. 3. Theknifehas. parallel vertical sides and has a downwardly inclined bevel 11 near its lower portion extending from the shorter verticalxside to the longer vertical side thereby making the cutting edge 12 of the knife where the bevel l1 joins with the longer vertical side of the knife.`

The longer vertical ,side of the knife bears against the inner side of the longer vertical or front side 6 of the guard, the shorter side of the knife correspondingly bears against the inner side of the shorter rear side of the guard and the bevel at ll comes against the concave inner side of the section 8, with the cutting-edge'of the knife coming into the space enclosed by the loop 9.

.By reason ofthe bearing of the bevel at m'llonthe curved section 8 the cutting. edgeV l2 of the knife is held away from the metal where it is formed into the loop 9, andthe edge of the knife cannot come in contact with the metal. The connecting togetherl of `the tongues f2 and 3 prevents any widening or .separationcf `the 'two sides Gand 7 of the guard and furthermore eliminates any possi- :zbility of. longitudinal movement of the guard ...on thedrnifefso vas to wholly or partly disr engage' therefrom.

Itis evident'that the blanks oflsheet metal frounir a 'hich the guards Aare made. mayy be cut ,ftoirthe necessary-and desired lengths for different lengths o'f knives and. that said blanks vlimaybe freadily and :quickly-formed and `shaped to :provide J the guards, while the i tongues Qfand' -as previously stated, hold the .#sideszoflthe guai'dfrigidly with respect to each `other and'insnre that the guard lwill remain ontthewknife in so far asl any longitudinal :movement thereof is concerned. This structure'protects-'the knife edge completely from `.any' possible ,injury .and the guard protects 'flpersons' handling the knives from any injury y:L'mfrom' thecutting edge of` the knife.

4rThe invention-is -deiinedin the appended @claims andris to be-considered comprehensive `zot all forms ofv structure coming within their `-scope.

'11. iAknifegfuard ofsheet metal having a vertical frontside, a vertical rear side spaced Yfrom fan'dparallel to the front side, the two Isides `having their upper edges in substan- 4J utial'lythe same plane, and the rear side being `of:lessxwidthfthan'the frontlside, and acon- .erectingsection` of sheet metal'froln the lower `edge sof `said rear side totlielower part of said front-sideran'd thelowerl part of the cen "uection sectionbeing 'formed into a downliwardly :and .slightly :forwardly extending Irsubstantiallyall-shaped loop, and said con- .rnectingsection` being curved downwardly and forwardly to present a'convexinner surface,

- 'f'for thefpur-posesspecifie 12. A construction containingthe elements fin combination. defined in claim 1, combined '-,with ears'integral with-.and extending from `the ends of said front and rear sides of the f'guard,saidears:extending toward and overflappingandv having permanent connection -`toeach other.

In aknifehavingl parallel sides and a bevel therebetween whereby a lcutting edge 'isfforniech 'the dcombination of a guard of 

